An Extreme Ultraviolet lithography machine costs $150 million. That’s a lot of change. And it makes you wonder.

Is having EUV really that big of a deal? You might have heard about this or that company managing to "achieve 7 nanometers" without the use of EUV. What should we make of that? Can we do 7nm chips without EUV?

The answer is yes, but you won't want to. And they probably won’t work as well. In this video, we are going to look at why we so badly need EUV to make the next generation of semiconductors. And what companies have to go through without it.

5:30 - I misspoke. Meant to say 3-D gate rather than 3 gate.

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